Re: [cobalt-security] Sendmail issues

["Frank Cubillos" <cubillos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried ftp'ing into var/log/maillog but get an access denied error, any
ideas? Can I download log via telnet? Thanks I think it's an important log
to keep an eye on.
TIA
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Tietze" <jptietze@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Sendmail issues
> Clients connecting to a server to check for their mail do not usually use
SMTP
> to do this... you would see in.qpopper processes for this. No, this looks
like
> multiple concurrently incoming messages from other mail servers. As to
whether
> this is normal, it usually is.
> Check your maillog to see if you are being abused as an open relay, the
peak
> number of sendmail processes by itself is nothing to worry.
 Jimmy Gross wrote:
 I believe these are clients connecting to your server to check for their
mail, not relaying.
> > jimmy